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Aesthetics, Art
Climate Change - An Aesthetic Crisis?
Alan Boldon (Director MA Arts and Ecology, Dartington College of Arts, UK and Associate Curator, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK) writes that “it is established that we are in the midst of an ecological crisis. I would argue that we also find ourselves in aesthetic crisis and that these two states are fundamentally related.” Read the [...]
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Aesthetics, Fatuous attempts of companies to appear green, Green consumerism
Branson’s coconuts
02.26.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsThe climate change debate is forever mired in statistics (or what George Bush would call ‘fuzzy math’). But it seems that in the last couple of days one number has really spoken: 150,000.
It took 150,000 coconuts to produce the biofuel to fill one fifth of one of the four fuel tanks on a Virgin Boeing [...]
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ValuingNature.org provides a forum for asking: are the successes of today's dominant strategies for creating behavioural change adequate if we are to meet the huge environmental challenges that we face, and might there be alternative approaches? It has been developed as part of WWF-UK's Strategies for Change Project.
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Weathercocks and signposts: The Environment Movement at a Crossroads is a critical re-examination of the assumptions underlying current approaches to motivating environmentally-friendly behaviour.
Simple and Painless? The limitations of spillover in environmental campaigning presents a critical examination of the evidence that urging people to switch to energy-efficient lightbulbs encourages them adopt more ambitious changes.
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"The next revolution - World War III - will be waged inside your head. It will be a guerrilla information war fought not in the sky or on the streets, not in the forests or even around the scarce resources of the earth, but in newspapers and magazines, on the radio, TV and in ’cyberspace’... It will be a dirty, no-holds-barred propaganda war of competing worldviews and alternative visions of the future. "
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